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Sipurio Snouted TreefrogScinax elaeochroa

The Sipurio Snouted Treefrog (Scinax elaeochroa) is a small yellow treefrog found in the lowlands of southern Nicaragua through Costa Rica into northern Panama. These individuals were photographed and recorded in the Caño Negro region of northern Costa Rica.

Their call is a rather grating, upward slurred "braaak". It is hard to describe in words, but in the field it is almost "duck-like". They call from wet grasslands and from low bushes over ponds and flooded areas. These were calling from beside a road through an extensive grassland area east of Caño Negro, Costa Rica.
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Scinax elaeochroa callThe spectrogram for this call shows the rough, upward slurred "braaak" of four of these calls.